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List Of Indigenous Australian Writers
Numerous Indigenous Australians are notable for their contributions to Australian literature and journalism. Indigenous Australian literature includes fiction, plays, letters, essays and other works. Literature * Faith Bandler — activist and novelist * Larissa Behrendt — activist, lawyer and novelist * Lisa Bellear — dramatist and poet * Charmaine Bennell — children's fiction * Iris Burgoyne — autobiographer * Burnum Burnum — writer and educator, tireless proponent of reconciliation * Ken Canning — poet and activist * Mary Carmel Charles — children's fiction * Claire G. Coleman — writer and poet * Jack Davis — poet and playwright * Wesley Enoch — playwright, director * Lionel Fogarty — poet and activist * Richard Frankland — playwright, scriptwriter and musician * Kevin Gilbert — activist, writer, artist * Jane Harrison — playwright * Ruth Hegarty — writer * Anita Heiss — novelist, poet and children's author * Kate Howarth — writer, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples from the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the terms First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia and First Australians are also increasingly common; 812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal; 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Hegarty
Ruth Hegarty (born 1929, in Mitchell, Queensland) is an Aboriginal Elder and author. Hegarty is well known for her non-fiction novels that document her personal history as one of the Stolen Generation. Her first book, ''Is That You Ruthie?'', is based on her experiences in the Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission where she lived until the age of 14. Her second novel, ''Bittersweet journey'' is her story from her early married life, her dealings with the Native Affairs Department, and her work in community politics and Indigenous organisations. ''Is That You Ruthie?'' won the 1998 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award. In 2010, Hegarty was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards. Life Hegarty and her mother, Ruby, were initially housed together in the dormitories at the Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission. When Hegarty was four years old, they were separated, when Ruby was sent away to work. They only had intermittent contact from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Since August 2020, he has been Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. Pascoe is best known for his work '' Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?'' (2014), in which he argues that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples engaged in agriculture, engineering and permanent building construction, and that their practices provide possible models for future sustainable development in Australia. Early life and education Pascoe was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1947. He grew up in a poor working-class family; his father, Alf, was a carpenter, and his mother, Gloria Pascoe, went on to win a gold medal in lawn bowls at the 1980 Arnhem Paralympics. Pascoe spent his early years on King Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal ( ; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November 192016 September 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. Noonuccal was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Life as a poet, artist, writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal joined the Australian Women's Army Service in 1942, after her two brothers were captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Serving as a signaller in Brisbane she met many black American soldiers, as well as European Australians. These contacts helped to lay the foundations for her later advocacy of Aboriginal rights. During the 1940s, she joined the Communist Party of Australia because it was the only party which opposed the White Australia policy. During the 1960s Walker emerged as a prominent political activist and writer. She was Queensland state secretary of the Federal Council for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bill Neidjie
Big Bill Neidjie ( – 23 May 2002), nicknamed "Kakadu Man", was the last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language, an Aboriginal Australian language from northern Kakadu, after which Kakadu National Park is named. He was an elder of the Gaagudju people and a custodian of the land, who cared deeply about preserving his culture and land. Early life and education Neijdie, was born around 1913 at Alawanydajawany, on the East Alligator River in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory, into the Bunitj clan of the Gaagudju people. His father was Nadampala and his mother was Lucy Wirlmaka, from the Ulbuk clan of the Amurdak people. He had little formal education, spending only a couple of years at school at Oenpelli (present-day Gunbalanya), but learnt about his traditional culture, people and lands from his father and grandfather. Working life From about the age of 20 he worked first with buffalo hunters, then at a timber mill, and then on board a lugger transporting peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudrooroo
Colin Thomas Johnson (21 August 1938 – 20 January 2019), better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo, was a novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He has been described as one of the most enigmatic literary figures of Australia and his many works are centred on Australian Aboriginal characters and Aboriginal topics. Also known as Mudrooroo Narogin and Mudrooroo Nyoongah. ''Narogin'' after the Indigenous spelling for his place of birth, and ''Nyoongah'' after the name of the people from whom he claimed descent. ''Mudrooroo'' means ''paperbark'' in the Bibbulmun language group spoken by the Noongar. Biography Born Colin Johnson, Mudrooroo was separated from his mother (his father had died before he was born) shortly before his ninth birthday. After spending seven years at Clontarf Boys' Town, he was turned out of the institution at the age of sixteen. He turned to burglary and served two stints in Fremantle Prison, where he began writing literature. After leaving prison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Morgan (artist)
Sally Jane Morgan (née Milroy; born 1951) is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Her works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world. Early life, education, and personal life Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1951 as the eldest of five children. She was raised by her mother Gladys and her maternal grandmother Daisy. Her mother, a member of the Bailgu people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, grew up in the Parkerville Children's Home as part of the Stolen Generations. Her father, William, a plumber by trade, died after a long-term battle with post-war experience post-traumatic stress disorder. Of her siblings, Jill Milroy is an academic, Helen Milroy is a child psychiatrist who was the first indigenous Australian to become a medical doctor, David is a playwright, and William has worked as a senior public servant. As a child, Morgan became aware that she was different from other ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Miller
Olga Eunice Miller ( Wondunna, later Reeves; 27 March 1920 – August 2003), often known as Aunty (or Auntie) Olga or by her traditional name Wandi, was an Australian historian, artist, author and Aboriginal elder of the Butchulla people. She often acted as an advocate for K'gari (Fraser Island) and Butchulla issues, and illustrated ''The Legends of Moonie Jarl'', the first known Australian Aboriginal–written children's book to be published. In 2002 she was named a Queensland Great. Early and personal life The youngest of seven siblings, Miller was born Olga Eunice Wondunna on 27 March 1920 in Maryborough, Queensland to mother Ethel Marion Reeves ( Gribble) and father Frederick Wondunna. Her parents' relationship, that of an Indigenous man and a white woman, was deeply controversial in its time and opposed by Ethel's brother Ernest Gribble in particular. Olga changed her surname from Wondunna to Reeves, before marrying Ronald Richard Miller on 1 June 1940 and taking his n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip McLaren
Philip McLaren (born 1943) is an Aboriginal Australian author and academic known for literary fiction, detective stories and thrillers. Biography McLaren is an Aboriginal Australian of the Kamilaroi people. Both of his parents, who have some Scottish heritage, are from Coonabarabran, New South Wales. He was born in Redfern, Sydney, Redfern, Sydney. He holds a Doctor of Creative Arts degree. He has worked in a range of occupations, including as an illustrator, designer, animator, sculptor, copywriter and creative director in television, advertising and film production companies. Over a period of 12 years he lived and worked in Canada, USA, England, New Zealand and the Bahamas. He has delivered lectures or readings at a range of institutions and festivals across the world, including the University of Alberta in Canada; the University of Sydney; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; Melbourne Writers Festival; Adelaide Writers' Week; Sydney Writers' Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Mancini (educator)
Ray Mancini is an Australian law enforcement educator, writer and businessman. Mancini is best known as the author of ''Zen, Meditation and the Art of Shooting''. He is also a writer for ''Security Solutions'', a security industry magazine, and ''Commando News''. Mancini is the chief executive officer of Security Intelligence Group International, a security consultation and training company, and the founder of Samscatt Sports Shooting, Inc. Mancini also educates and trains on professional security, risk assessment and risk management at SIG Academy Australia. He has worked for the personal security of Mariah Carey, Ice-T, Alaa Zalzali Alaa Zalzali ( ar, علاء زلزلي; born Ali Ahmed Zalzali; October 18, 1969) is a Lebanese singer. Life Zalzali's first song "Ahla Oyoun" was released in 1990. On 2007, Alaa announced a new single called "Ya Nasrallah". The lyrics are ba ... and Zoe Badwi. In 2015, Mancini announced Pilum Arms, a firearms manufacturer based in Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers. In 2013 at The Walkley Awards, she won the "Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words) Award" for her piece ''Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan''. In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for '' Too Much Lip''. Early life and education Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. Her heritage is Bundjalung and European. She is a graduate of Griffith University (1990), with an honours degree in public policy. In 1992 she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation which supports women and girls in prison. Writing career She has said that when she began writing seriously "there was still a glaring hole in Australian literature", with almost no prominent Aboriginal voices and with only the University of Queensland Press and a few other small outlets publishing the work of Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Langford Ginibi
Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 – 1 October 2011) was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics. Names According to Langford's memoir, ''Don't Take Your Love to Town'', her parents married in September 1934, eight months after her birth, and she was originally named Ruby Maude Anderson. Langford was her husband's surname, and Ginibi is a Bundjalung honorific. Life and career Born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on New South Wales's northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino. At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist. She had nine children by various relationships, but only legally married once, to Peter Langford, whose surname she took as her own. Three of Langford's children predeceased her. Graphic designer Nikita Ridgeway is one of her grandchildren. Her best-known book was the autobiographical ''Don't Take Your Love to Town'', publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
